If you’re the type of person who frequently says things like, “Oh, that’s way too sweet for me” then don’t make this dessert.

It just leaves more for the rest of us

And this is a messy one!

Your hands will get super sticky

Or you can be a cheater and use silverware.

I was pretending I was a Girl Scout eating smores around the campfire when I was eating these. Totally messy and sticky and loving it.

Thankfully I was indoors and wasn’t getting any mosquito bites while sitting around the campfire waiting for my marshmallows to perfectly roast.

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Deep Dish Double Chocolate Golden Grahams Smores Bars

5 c Golden Grahams cereal (if you like drier bars, use 6 c of cereal)

one 7-oz. jar marshmallow creme

one can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 c white chocolate chips

1 c chocolate chips

+ 1/3 c white chocolate chips for sprinkling on top prior to baking

+ 1/3 c chocolate chips for sprinkling on top prior to baking

Directions:

Place marshmallow creme, condensed milk, and vanilla extract into a large bowl and stir until well combined. Add the cereal, 1 c white and 1 c chocolate chips, and stir to combine.

Take mixture and press into a foil-lined 9 x 9 pan (you can use a bigger pan, i.e. 9 x 11 or 9 x 13 but the bars will not be as thick and deep dish style) and I highly recommend using foil-lined. You cannot imagine the sticky mess you are creating. Use foil.

Sprinkle the top with the remaining 1/3 c each of white and dark chocolate chips before baking

Bake at 350F for 18-20 minutes for very gooey bars with a runnier filling

Or

Bake closer to 25-30 minutes for more solid and less runny/gooey bars (I like runny, messy, marshmallow dripping everywhere smores so I baked for 18 minutes)

Allow bars to cool before slicing and serving.

Store at room temp or the fridge.

You can freeze these and keep them on hand for months Pull one or two or a half dozen bars out of the freezer as needed and allow to come to room temp before eating, about 20 minutes.

Notes:

If you don’t like Golden Grahams, use another cereal.

If you don’t like white chocolate, omit it. And use more dark/milk chocolate if desired.

To make these vegan, use vegan white chocolate and vegan marshmallows for both the marshmallow creme portion as well as the added marshmallows. Use full fat coconut milk sweetened with agave for the sweetened condensed milk. Use a vegan-friendly cereal.

To make them gluten free, use GF cereal and read the labels if you are extremely gluten sensitive for the marshmallow creme and other ingredients.

All that sweetened condensed milk and marshmallow creme softens the cereal, creating an authentic smores filling

Even if it is a little messy and splooges everywhere. Just like real smores.

Creating smores with graham cereal rather than graham crackers was a win for me

These bars combine the best of so many worlds:

Golden Grahams

White Chocolate

Dark Chocolate

Marshmallow Cream

Sweetened Condensed Milk

They are messy, but messy is good

You can store them in the fridge/freezer and the filling will be more solid, but as they come to room temp (or fresh baked straight from the oven) the filling is runnier and messier

Melted marshmallow fluff + a can of sweetened condensed milk = smores “sauce” (bake longer or use the higher called for amount of cereal if you don’t like sauce but I love it)

And be prepared to speed dial your dentist from all that sugar you just ate. Blame it on the Girl Scouts.

From my last post, lots of you are big Mango fans. Me too, as I counted the many ways.

Questions:

1. Do you like Smores? When was the last time you had them?

If you say no, you don’t like smores, I don’t believe you.

The last time I had official campfire-made smores was probably about 10 years ago at a beach bonfire. Has it really been 10 years since I’ve had an official campfire-roasted marshmallow?

You know the kind where you get too impatient to twirl that stick around any longer on the fringes of the fire and end up just sticking it right into the fire and then blowing off the flaming ‘mallow and eating it. Black char, burnt sugar, some slivers of tree stick and somehow can’t wait for the next one. Those are memories, I tell you!

2. Any childhood cereals you loved? Do you still eat them or like them?

I’ve been enjoying these bars but am mindful not to overdue it because of the gluten. I may make these with a GF cereal that’s similar to Golden Grahams but for this recipe, I just had to have the original GG’s.

Good thing Cocoa Krispies are made of rice, not wheat. As my wheels turn for what to make with those. Maybe a version of these.

3. Best thing you ate or did all weekend?

The great summery weather, time with Skylar, and sharing these bars with her has rocked!

P.S. If you’re just catching up on posts from the Friday, here are mine:

the recipe- finally! thanks for pointing out the vegan options. it looks like you served them with a sauce, they look so drippy!
I have had smores once, before going vegetarian, and I only thought they were “ok”. Also I am not a big fan of cereals (that is mostly bc while growing up we only had oatmeal and cornflakes), though I loved staying at my grandparents house and eating crunchy nutty cluster cereal (I can´t remember the name ;)).
I had a weekend filled with party, laughter and friends- totally worthy the lack of sleep :D
have a great week, too!

Rob and I finished off our last pound of scallops from Anderson Seafoods. This time I sauteed them with thin strips of zucchini and smothered them in hollandaise sauce. Soooo good! Wah, now the scallops are all gone! It was great while it lasted. But I still have the albacore steaks in the freezer.

YUM! My friends and I “invented” peebsmores on a camping trip one year-peanut butter s’mores! They’re divine. I haven’t had any s’mores this summer, but we usually get together around the fire at least once a summer and do them! I’ve been craving them but I haven’t been able to find vegan marshmallows in any stores around here!

WHen I was little I loved sugary cereal. Frosted Mini Wheats and Frosted Flakes? Yes please. Actually, I liked corn flakes doused in sugar better because then you had sugar at the bottom of the bowl. And Cap’n Crunch Berries! I didn’t get into Golden Grahams until college, but boy I loved them then! I was a Cinnamon Toast Crunch girl prior.

Hah, you said “splooges!” Oh man, I cannot remember the last time I had an honest-to-goodness s’more—these bars look fantastic!

Growing up, I loooved Crispix. Golden Grahams was another favorite—it’s all about texture. These days, I tend to prefer shredded wheat, though I’ve been digging Puffins lately.

In preparation for the hurricane, I went to ride it out at my parents’ house, and my mom and I made a ton of roasted veggies and a pesto pasta salad. There was also a lot of good wine involved. We ended up not losing power, though. Being thankful for electricity made this morning’s breakfast (oats with cocoa, chia seeds, banana and cottage cheese with berries on top) taste extra good!

what a fabulous idea and post, averie. your sense of humour just cracks me up!!!
“be prepared to speed dial your dentist from all that sugar you just ate” – > a gem!
what a zany idea for squares…so out there that it’ll work. nice work on the recipe!!
i ADORE cereal and love “kids'” cereal – i have to watch the gluten a bit, too, so eat gf cereals more often, but i tell you, nothing beats cap’n crunch some days!
smores: have not had them since childhood. i associate them with campfires and have not sat around one of those in eons, either!

Um, I think all I have got to say is wow. Those look absolutly INSANE. I used to eat cheerios with cranberry juice like they were going out of style when I was a kid! But I was never really that into cereal. I liked cinnamon buns and toast and jam way more! Did you ever have cinnamon spread? It was basically hydrogenated margarine with cinnamon, sugar and chemicals. And it was SOOOOOO good.

What a great idea! Although I’m a desserts-obsessed person, I’m also one of those silly “that’s too sweet” people, but I love me some smores. Thinking of trying to modify this with just the golden grahams, chocolate chips, & marshmallow fluff (preferably ricemallow cream, but I haven’t been able to find it lately!). Ya got my wheels churning now…..maybe a little less gooey, but still YUM :). Thanks!

Do I like s’mores? What kind of question is that? ;-) Of course! I haven’t had one since last summer, though. I need to hurry before this summer is over!

Golden grahams was one of my favorite cereals growing up, too. I also loved Lucky Charms, PB Cap’n Crunch, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa Krispies, pretty much anything that was filled with sugar. :-) Yep, I grew up on sugary cereal. Like you, it wasn’t strange if I ate it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner some days. I don’t buy the stuff these days, but strangely enough I was tempted by a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch at the grocery store today. It was on sale and just sounded so good. I resisted, though.

DUDE> Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, PB Cap’n Crunch, Lucky Charms, basically if General mills made it, I ate it. I thought I was all sophisticated and fancy in college when I switched to Honey Bunches of Oats and Frosted Mini Wheats and cinnamon Life. Riiiight.

So, did you take these photos before baking them or are they really that creamy after being baked? There aren’t even knife marks!

I ate smores about a year ago. Last Labor Day weekend at my parents cabin. 100% worth every single minute of pain that ensued. And there were a lot of minutes of pain.

Holy delicious bars. These look amazing (as do all your recipes). Man oh man, I guess I need to put that marshmallow creme back on my list. he he! I can already picture myself eating these straight out of the freezer. Mmmm….. :) And as usual your pictures are fabulous!

I used to eat a lot of cinnamon toast crunch. Once, at a friend’s house she had Cookie-crisp and some oreo cereal; I’m all for sugary stuff, but that is one step too far! Haha. Maybe not :P For a once in a lifetime thing, not going to kill me. But, really, I wouldn’t eat cookie crisp now, I rather have something healthyish to start the day and have a cookie or bar for dessert! Although, I do love pancakes but I’m always making Chocolate Covered Katie’s Brownie Batter pancakes, yumm!

Wow those look absolutely delicious!
I hardly ever eat them but I do love marshmallows so I guess I’d like s’mores (I know, I’ve never had them before!). Weetabix was my favourite when I was little then I stopped eating cereal but now it’s practically all I eat for breakfast :-P. I also love Curiously Cinnamon cereal, anything with cinnamon is good in my book!

I haven’t had s’mores in years. I only have them when I go camping and that was I think two years ago. Now I don’t even know what I’d use for graham crackers because I can’t find GF ones that are also free of xanthan gum. A friend made homemade ones last year to turn into a crust, but they had xanthan gum in them. I’d have to do some tinkering!

These look absolutely delicious. I so don’t get people who find treats “too rich” or “too sweet.” They simply do not have the taste buds I do! I don’t think I have ever in my life thought “too sweet” unless it was a sweet potato in a savory dish. I don’t like my sweet and savory combined!

I wasn’t a big cereal fan. When I was growing up it was mostly about the Pop-Tarts and the Toaster Strudels.

Oh my gosh! These look ridiculous awesome! I love golden grahams. Other childhood favorites? Captain Crunch and Cinnamon toast crunch! Haven’t had either in ages. And a big yes to smores! A great combo of flavors.

Averie, this is just pure evil amazingness!! I LOVE Golden Grahams. I could sit and eat a box of them like it’s nothing. Therefore, I rarely buy them. Those bars look fabulous though. I’m going to have to pick up some GG’s ASAP. :)

1) Love the new blog look. Like seriously, not just saying that to be polite, I reallyreally like it.
2) Obviouslyyyy I LOVE s’mores!! Sign me up for anything featuring marshmallows.
3) Congrats on being in the Foodbuzz Top 9! Just opened my e-mail to see your cookies tempting me :)

Just made these- deliciousness. I forgot to spray the foil so that was quite a job though- and I am eating them for my “2nd breakfast” – yum nothing like a skyrocketing dose of sugar to start out the day.
Katie

You mentioned “Use full fat coconut milk sweetened with agave for the sweetened condensed milk”. Is this always a legitimate substitute for the condensed milk? If so, what is the ratio? I would prefer to use that in my baking instead if the condensed milk.

If you combine about equal portions of both agave and coconut milk, then boil to reduce the volume by about half, you will get something that is similar to SCMilk. Not exactly, but work-able. Play around with it and enjoy!